Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Decorating for Christmas
We decorated our Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving this year. It's the earliest we've done this before and we really enjoyed it. Every day the kids came out from thier bedrooms in the morning to turn on the tree lights and that continued through Christmas Day.
We set up our nativity set too. The one you see here is one that has belonged to my mom's side of the family for years. The kids played with it a few days before I had to super glue one of the shepherds heads back on. So, we decided to purchase a Melissa & Doug kids nativity set to have up until our kids our a little older.
Christmas Tree Lighting
We took the kids to the tree lighting at the Annapolis Towne Center. There were carolers singing and they were giving out free hot chocolate and Christmas cookies. We all had such a fun family evening.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Pumpkin Carving / Burning
Redneck pumpkin carving!
This was a cultural experience for us. We'd carved plenty of pumpkins but burned them, no. It was really beautiful actually. Unfortunately I couldn't get a good picture of the pumpkins burning.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Explaination of our Homeschool
Okay, so I am still trying to figure out Wordpress. I couldn't figure out how to write this description in the previous post so here's what I wanted to add.
We started a very light homeschooling book called Before Five in a Row where we would read one children's book 5 days in a row and take from it a new area of learning each day. They absolutely loved it. We did that consistently for about 2 months. Lelia got a lot out of it and Sedona just hung in there for the readings but not usually the 5 minute lesson afterwards. That's great with me. Sedona isn't quite ready for all of this so I just let her wonder off once she's had enough.
Then, after a few weeks of very bad days with Lelia we thought that she needed some more structure in her days. That's when we started another very light homeschooling curriculum from the website www.1plus1plus1equals1.com that's focus is mainly on Scripture. Lelia had an enormous breakthrough the very first day we started and life around here has been so much smoother ever since. We are so grateful for the woman who provides the learning materials from that website, completely free to any user. Take a look at it if you are interested.
Our focus right now is just to take things at Lelia's pace. She is only 3 and doesn't need to be formally taught right now, so we aren't. She's loving what we are learning. She has 2 Scripture verses memorized from the first 2 weeks and knows 2 new songs that we do each morning. We also have some tracing for her to do while she's learning her letters. Eventually I will be teaching her how to read. I can't wait for that, that really excites me. Being the one to teach my daughter to read is something I will always cherish! Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. So she traces, cuts and learns numbers, all out of workbooks that she does when she asks to. That's it these days. It's exciting!
We started a very light homeschooling book called Before Five in a Row where we would read one children's book 5 days in a row and take from it a new area of learning each day. They absolutely loved it. We did that consistently for about 2 months. Lelia got a lot out of it and Sedona just hung in there for the readings but not usually the 5 minute lesson afterwards. That's great with me. Sedona isn't quite ready for all of this so I just let her wonder off once she's had enough.
Then, after a few weeks of very bad days with Lelia we thought that she needed some more structure in her days. That's when we started another very light homeschooling curriculum from the website www.1plus1plus1equals1.com that's focus is mainly on Scripture. Lelia had an enormous breakthrough the very first day we started and life around here has been so much smoother ever since. We are so grateful for the woman who provides the learning materials from that website, completely free to any user. Take a look at it if you are interested.
Our focus right now is just to take things at Lelia's pace. She is only 3 and doesn't need to be formally taught right now, so we aren't. She's loving what we are learning. She has 2 Scripture verses memorized from the first 2 weeks and knows 2 new songs that we do each morning. We also have some tracing for her to do while she's learning her letters. Eventually I will be teaching her how to read. I can't wait for that, that really excites me. Being the one to teach my daughter to read is something I will always cherish! Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. So she traces, cuts and learns numbers, all out of workbooks that she does when she asks to. That's it these days. It's exciting!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Starting to Homeschool
- I have seen a huge improvement in Lelia's cutting since we started school 8 days ago.
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